back by popular demand it's the 2017 reading challenge thread

[Orang Utan]

32 - Mieville - October

I've just started that - did you rate it?

 

[gawkrodger]

yeh, enjoyable read. Often, unsurprisingly, more like reading a novel

 

[braindancer]

1/20 - The Secret History - Donna Tartt
2/20 - The Grifters - Jim Thompson
3/20 - His Bloody Project - Graeme Macrae Burnet
4/20 - The Sellout - Paul Beatty
5/20 - The North Water - Ian McGuire
6/20 - The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
7/20 - Black Water Lillies - Michel Bussi
8/20 - The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry
9/20 - The Mask of Dimitrios - Eric Ambler
10/20 - Girl in a Band - Kim Gordon
11/20 - We are all completely beside ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler
12/20 - The Son - Phillip Meyer
13/20 - The Power - Naomi Alderman
14/20 - Another Country - James Baldwin
15/20 - Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
16/20 - The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
17/20 - Requiem for a Dream - Hubert Selby Jr
18/20 - The Last Picture House - Larry Mcmurtry

 

[QueenOfGoths]

1. "Six Suspects" - Vikas Swarup
2. "Rather Be The Devil" - Ian Rankin
3. "Those We Left Behind" - Stuart Neville
4. "Transition" - Iain Banks
6. "Streets of Darkness" - A.A. Dhand
7. "The Rapture" - Liz Jensen
8. "Collusion" - Stuart Neville
9. "Magpie Murders" - Anthony Horowitz
10."A Dark So Deadly" - Stuart MacBride
11. "Conclave" - Robert Harris
12. "A Time of Torment" - John Connolly
13. "The House of Dolls" - David Hewson
14. "A Game of Ghosts" - John Connolly
15 "The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair" - Joel Dicker
16. "From the Dead" - Mark Billingham
17. "Black Water Lillies" - Michel Bussi
18 "Written in Bones" - James Oswald

19. "The Hanging" - Lotte and Soren Hammer. Terrible translation and not a strong story. Not sure why I persisted with it

 

[Me76]

1/50 Teenage Revolution, Alan Davies
2/50 The Third Woman, Jonathan Freedland
3/50 The Art of Peeling an Orange, Victoria Avilan
4/50 Courting Trouble, Lisa M Hawkins
5/50 Dr Vigilante, Alberto Hazan
6/50 the Husband's Secret, Liane Moriarty
7/50 Sleep Tight, Rachel Abbot
8/50 A Dark Adapted Eye, Barbara Vine
9/50 Patchwork Man, DB Martin
10/50 Gone Bad, JB Turner
11/50 The Devil Wears Prada, Lauren Weisberger
12/50 The Cry, Helen Fitzgerald
13/50 While My Eyes Were Closed, Linda Green
14/50 Total Victim Theory, Ian Ballard
15/50 Alternate Lifestyles, Lisa M Hawkins
16/50 Dodgers, Bill Beverly
17/50 Tess of the D'urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
18/50 Secrets of Happiness, Lucy Diamond
19/50 St Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves, Karen Russell
20/50 Love Nina, Nina Stubbs
21/50 Innocence, Dean Koontz
22/50 Diamonds in the Sky, MA Harper
23/50 Son of a Serial Killer, Jams N Roses
24/50 Blood of a Serial Killer, Jams N Roses.
25/50 When my Ship Comes In, Sue Wilsher
26/50 Fanatic, Jams N Roses
27/50 Brilliant & Forever, Kevin McNeil
28/50 The Girl in the Maze, RK Jackson
29/50 The Martian, Andy Weir
30/50 High Rise, JG Ballard
31/50 Affliction, Laurell K Hamilton
32/50 Slip, David Estes
33/50 Synchronised Breathing, Tara Ellison
34/50 Savage Lane, Jason Starr
35/50 A Smudge of Gray, Jonathan Sturak
36/50 A Family Saga, Patricia Jetson
37/50 High Society, Ben Elton
38/50 The Wonder, Emma Donoghue
39/50 Hunter / Prey, Sam Sisavath
40/50 Taking Flight, Adrian Magnuson.
41/50 Sleeping Beauties, Stephen and Owen King


42/50 Focused and Challenged, Lisa M Hawkins.
I am amazingly privileged to have been asked to proof / edit this before my friend sends it for publication on Amazon. So you can't get it yet. But the first three in the series are brilliant and out there.

 

[marty21]

1/75 Sanctuary : After it Happened Book 5 - Devon C Ford
2/75 1916 : The Morning After - Tim Pat Coogan
3/75 Last Stand at Saber River - Elmore Leonard
4/75 After : The Shock - Scott Nicholson
5/75 After : The Echo - Scott Nicholson
6/75 After : Milepost 291 - Scott Nicholson
7/75 After : Whiteout - Scott Nicholson
8/75 After : Red Scare - Scott Nicholson
9/75 Surviving The Evacuation : Ireland - Book 9 -Frank Tayell
10/75 Crisis - Frank Gardner
11/75 Outcast London : A Study in the Relationship Between Classes in Victorian Society - Gareth Stedman Jones
12/75 After : Dying Light - Scott Nicholson
13/75 The Ruins - T W Piperbrook
14/75 Confederates - Thomas Keneally
15/75 Black Water Lilies - Michel Bussi
16/75 The Revenge of History - Seumas Milne
17/75 The Great War : The American Front - Harry Turtledove.
18/75 The Wrong Side of Goodbye - Michael Connelly
19/75 Surviving The Evacuation : The Last Candidate - Book 10 . Frank Tayell
20/75 The Gunslinger : The Dark Tower - Stephen King.
21/75 Out of Bounds - Val McDermid
22/75 Hurst - Robin Crumby
23/75 The Great War : Walk In Hell - Harry Turtledove
24/75 Cold Earth - Ann Cleeves
25/75 Critical Dawn - Darren Wearmouth & Colin Barnes
26/75 Critical Path - Wearmouth & Barnes
27/75 Critical Strike - Wearmouth & Barnes
28/75 The Birdwatcher - William Shaw
29/75 Dodgers - Bill Beverly
30/75 Dark Town - Thomas Mullen
31/75 A Hero In France - Alan Furst
32/75 Reelin' in The Years : The Soundtrack of a Northern Life. - Mark Radcliffe
33/75 The Scarecrow - Michael Connelly
34/75 Roads :A Millennial Journey Along America''s Great Interstate Highways - Larry McMurtry
35/75 Rebellion: After It Happened Book 6 - Devon C Ford
36/75 Sentinel - Robin Crumby
37/75 The Fire Sermon - Raphael Dogg
38/75 Earth Alone - Daniel Arenson
39/75 Earth Lost - Daniel Arenson
40/75 Earth Rising - Daniel Arenson
41/75 I am Pilgrim - Terry Hayes
42/75 To Kill The President - Sam Bourne
43/75 The Contours of American History - William Appleman Williams
44/75 The Killing of Osama Bin Laden - Seymour Hersh.
45/75 Nomad - James Swallow
46/75 Surviving The Evacuation: Search and Rescue . Book 11 - Frank Tayell
47/75 The Strength of the Wolf : The Secret History of America's War on Drugs - Douglas Valentine.
48/75 I Am Missing - Tim Weaver.
49/75 Exile - James Swallow
50/75 The Ministry of Nostalgia - Owen Hatherley
51/75 The Age of Jihad - Patrick Cockburn
52/75 Holy Island - LJ Ross
53/75 Sycamore Gap - LJ Ross
54/75 Heavenfield - LJ Ross
55/75 Angel - LJ Ross
56/75 High Force - LJ Ross
57/75 Cragside - LJ Ross
58/75 Extreme Measures - Vince Flynn

******
59/75 Transfer of Power - Vince Flynn

 

[Plumdaff]

1/25 Junk by Melvin Burgess
2/25 The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
3/25 The White Album by Joan Didion
4/25 Short Cuts by Raymond Carver
5/25 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
6/25 To Rise Again At A Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris.
7/25 Dark Matter by Michelle Paver. A sliver of Arctic dread. I enjoyed it a lot.
8/25 Talking to the Dead by Harry Bingham. Enjoyable crime fiction, with the added interest of being set where I live

So I've spent six months now completing my PGDip and not reading outside that subject; I'm not going to count the PGDip books as my aim was to increase the amount I read for pleasure, even if that decision makes my target unreachable this year.
But
9/25 We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. The book that inspired 1984 by Orwell. I preferred the Orwell.

 

[Beats & Pieces]

56. Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit - Jeanette Winterson

 

[Voley]

1/30 Substance: Inside New Order - Peter Hook
2/30 The Illustrated A Brief History Of Time - Stephen Hawking
3/30 A Clash Of Kings - George R.R. Martin
4/30 Reelin' In The Years: The Soundtrack Of A Northern Life - Mark Radcliffe
5/30 Look Back In Hunger: The Autobiography - Jo Brand
6/30 Dodgers - Bill Beverly
7/30 Altamont: The Rolling Stones, The Hells Angels And The Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day - Joel Selvin
8/30 Live At The Brixton Academy: A Riotous Life In The Music Business - Simon Parkes
9/30 Travels With Charley: In Search Of America - John Steinbeck
10/30 A Storm Of Swords Book 1: Steel And Snow - George R.R. Martin
11/30 Girl In A Band - Kim Gordon
12/30 The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
13/30 Hound Dog - Richard Blandford
14/30 American Gods - Neil Gaiman
15/30 Daft Wee Stories - Limmy
16/30 Don't You Leave Me Here - Wilko Johnson
17/30 What Planet Am I On? - Shaun Ryder
18/30 My Old Man: Tales Of Our Fathers - ed. Ted Kessler
19/30 The Outsider - Albert Camus
20/30 Kill Your Friends - John Niven
21/30 The Devil All The Time - Donald Ray Pollock
22/30 Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse - David Mitchell
23/30 Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams

Bit disappointed by this. I love all the Hitchhikers Guide books and this had flashes of the same humour but just didn't hit the same spot. I dunno, I'm wondering if Douglas Adams isn't a bit 'of his time' now. I'm not going to reread HHGTTG though - I'm very fond of that and wouldn't like to ruin it.

 

[Threshers_Flail]

1/50 Vladimir Nabokov - Speak, Memory
2/50 Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove
3/50 Steve Reicher - Mad Mobs and Englishmen?: Myths and realities of the 2011 riots
4/50 Stuart Jeffries - Grand Hotel Abyss
5/50 Sean Birchall - Beating the Fascists: The Untold Story of Anti-fascist Action
6/50 Alasdair Gray - Lanark
7/50 Shirley Jackson - The Haunting of Hill House
8/50 Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed
9/50 Justin McGruick - Radical Cities
10/50 Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism
11/50 Hannah Arendt - Eichmann in Jerusalem
12/50 Martin Ford - Rise of the Robots
13/50 John Steinbeck - Cannery Row
14/50 Franz Kafka - The Trial (re-read)
15/50 Robert Baxell - Unlikely Warriors: The British in the Spanish Civil War and the Struggle Against Fascism
16/50 John Berger - Ways of Seeing
17/50 Bill Beverly - Dodgers
18/50 Susan Sontag - On Photography
19/50 James Baldwin - Another Country
20/50 Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye
21/50 Raymond Carver - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
22/50 Gunter Grass- The Tin Drum
23/50 Cormac McCarthy - Child of God
24/50 Nathan Hill - The Nix
25/50 Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex
26/50 Ursula K. Le Guin - The Dispossessed
27/50 Elena Ferrante - Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay
28/50 John Dinges - The Condor Years
29/50 Albert Camus - The Fall
30/50 Elena Ferrante - The Story of the Lost Child
31/50 Roberto Bolaño - By Night In Chile
32/50 Junot Diaz- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
33/50 Angela Davis - An Autobiography
34/50 Donna Tartt - The Secret History
35/50 Ali Smith - How to Be Both
36/50 Wallace Stegner - The Spectator Bird
37/50 Paul Lewis and Rob Evans - Undercover - The True Story of Britain's Secret Police
38/50 Jakob Wassermann - My First Wife
39/50 E.P Thompson - The Making of the English Working Class
40/50 Larry McMurtry - The Last Picture Show
41/50 James Baldwin - The Fire Next Time
42/50 Julian Maclaren-Ross - Of Love and Hunger

 

[Threshers_Flail]

Is that good? I've come across it mentioned a few times...

Missed this! Yes it's good, sadly as true today as when originally written.

 

[iona]

<snip>

Now reading a nearly 1000-page novel and some nonfiction thing about suicide terrorism at the same time so that might be me done for the month - or even the year, given how infrequent my reading's been so far.

...or maybe not Love it when I get so engrossed in a book I lose hours and days at a time. Although that does now mean I'm extra pissed off that the ending was so crap

1) Insurgent - Veronica Roth
2) 1Q84, Book One - Haruki Murakami
3) 1Q84, Book Two - Haruki Murakami
4) Fatal Burn - Lisa Jackson
5) 1Q84, Book Three - Haruki Murakami
6) The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
7) Anathem - Neal Stephenson

 

[May Kasahara]

1/49 - Dave Eggers - The Circle
2/49 - John Masefield - The Box of Delights
3/49 - Jenny Nimmo - The Rinaldi Ring
4/49 - Sarah Helm - If This Is A Woman
5/49 - Art Spiegelman - Maus
6/49 - Will Ferguson - 419
7/49 - Bram Stoker - Dracula
8/49 - Paul Cornell - Witches of Lychford
9/49 - John Connolly - Night Music
10/49 - Kristin Cashore - Graceling
11/49 - Deborah Levy - Swimming Home
12/49 - Sue Lloyd-Roberts - The War on Women
13/49 - Belinda Bauer - The Shut Eye
14/49 - Ann Leckie - Ancillary Justice
15/49 - Adrian Tchaikovsky - Children of Time
16/49 - Stephen King - Bag of Bones
17/49 - Jon McGregor - Reservoir 13
18/49 - Jeff Vandermeer - Borne
19/49 - Jon Ronson - The Psychopath Test
20/49 - Susan Cain - Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking

21/49 - Naomi Alderman - The Power. It was...okay.

 

[gawkrodger]

1 - Kilcullen - Out of the Mountains
2 - McAlevey - Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) - re-read
3 - Srnicek - Platform Capitalism
4 - Frase - Four Futures
5 - Dickens - Night Walks
6 - Ellis & Henderson - English Planning in Crisis
7- Beaumont - Night Walking: A Nocturnal History of London
8 - Dunn - Dark Matters: A Manifesto for the Nocturnal City
9 - Mieville - The City & The City
10 - Benjamin - One-way Street and other writings
11- Schlosser - Gods of Metal
12 - Machiavelli - The Prince
13 - Mieville - Perdido Street Station
14 - Shaw + Graham (eds.) - Our Digital Rights to the City
15 - William Morris - The Pilgrims of Hope
16 - Mieville - The Scar
17 - Mieville - Iron Council
18 - Steinbeck - The Pearl
19 - Mieville - Kraken
20 - Graham - Cities under siege: The new military urbanism
21 - Fisher - Capitalist Realism (re-read for a reading group)
22 - Nagle - Kill All Normies
23 - Pettifor - The Production of Money
24 - McKinstry - Spitfire
25 - Liz Berry - Black Country
26 - McKinstry - Lancaster
27 - Adamczak - Communism for Kids
28 - Southwood - Non-Stop Inertia (re-read for this reading group)
29 - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - Clandestine in Chile
30 - Durand - Fictious Capital: How Finance is appropriating our future
31 - Varoufakis - Adults in the room
32 - Mieville - October
33 - Meiksins Wood - The Origins of Capitalism: A Longer View - excellent. Read a few journal articles by her, but never read any of her books, more fool me

 

[BoatieBird]

1/65 - Laurie Lee - Village Christmas and Other Notes on the English Year
2/65 - John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany (1/10*)
3/65 - Ben Aaronovitch - Moon Over Soho
4/65 - William Boyd - Any Human Heart (2/10)
5/65 - Douglas Adams - Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
6/65 - John Steinbeck - Tortilla Flat
7/65 - Andrew Michael Hurley - The Loney
8/65 - Tana French - Into The Woods (Dublin Murder Squad 1) (3/10)
9/65 - Larry McMurty - Lonesome Dove (4/10)
10/65 - Denise Mina - The Dead Hour (Paddy Meehan 2)
11/65 - Ian Rankin - The Flood
12/65 - Denise Mina - Slip of the Knife (Paddy Meehan 3)
13/65 - Neil Gaiman - Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
14/65 - Bill Beverly - Dodgers
15/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Face of Trespass
16/65 - John Irving - The World According to Garp (5/10)
17/65 - Val McDermid - Out of Bounds
18/65 - Stuart Maconie - Hope and Glory: A People's History of Modern Britain
19/65 - Margaret Atwood - Oryx and Crake
20/65 - Kate Atkinson - Emotionally Weird
21/65 - Roald Dahl - Madness
22/65 - Tana French - The Likeness (Dublin Murder Squad 2) (6/10)
23/65 - Daniel Woodrell - The Maid's Version
24/65 - Laline Paull - The Bees
25/65 - Jonathan Franzen - Freedom (7/10)
26/65 - Nicola Morgan - Blame My Brain: The Amazing Teenage Brain Revealed
27/65 - Arundhati Roy - The God of Small Things
28/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Killing Doll
29/65 - Denise Mina - Sanctum
30/65 - John Williams - Butcher's Crossing
31/65 - Anita Brookner - Hotel Du Lac
32/65 - Peter James - Need You Dead
33/65 - Stephen King - Carrie
34/65 - Andy Hamilton - The Star Witness
35/65 - Jessie Burton - The Muse
36/65 - Stephen King - Christine (8/10)
37/65 - Belinda Bauer - The Beautiful Dead
38/65 - John Irving - The Cider House Rules (9/10)
39/65 - Ruth Rendell - A New Lease of Death
40/65 - Stephen King - It (10/10)
41/65 - Annie Proulx - Heart Songs
42/65 - Ruth Rendell - Wolf to The Slaughter
43/65 - Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho
44/65 - Ruth Rendell - The Best Man To Die
45/65 - Sarah Perry - The Essex Serpent
46/65 - Ruth Rendell - A Guilty Thing Surprised
47/65 - David Mitchell - number9dream
48/65 - Ruth Rendell - No More Dying Then
49/65 - Denise Mina - The Long Drop
50/65 - Ruth Rendell - Murder Being Done Once

51/65 - Jon McGregor - So Many Ways to Begin

 

[Plumdaff]

1/25 Junk by Melvin Burgess
2/25 The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
3/25 The White Album by Joan Didion
4/25 Short Cuts by Raymond Carver
5/25 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
6/25 To Rise Again At A Decent Hour by Joshua Ferris.
7/25 Dark Matter by Michelle Paver.
8/25 Talking to the Dead by Harry Bingham.
9/25 We by Yevgeny Zamyatin.

10/25 Love Story With Murders by Harry Bingham

 

[braindancer]

1/20 - The Secret History - Donna Tartt
2/20 - The Grifters - Jim Thompson
3/20 - His Bloody Project - Graeme Macrae Burnet
4/20 - The Sellout - Paul Beatty
5/20 - The North Water - Ian McGuire
6/20 - The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
7/20 - Black Water Lillies - Michel Bussi
8/20 - The Essex Serpent - Sarah Perry
9/20 - The Mask of Dimitrios - Eric Ambler
10/20 - Girl in a Band - Kim Gordon
11/20 - We are all completely beside ourselves - Karen Joy Fowler
12/20 - The Son - Phillip Meyer
13/20 - The Power - Naomi Alderman
14/20 - Another Country - James Baldwin
15/20 - Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
16/20 - The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson
17/20 - Requiem for a Dream - Hubert Selby Jr
18/20 - The Last Picture House - Larry Mcmurtry
19/20 - Concrete Island - J.G. Ballard

 

[inva]

33 - Meiksins Wood - The Origins of Capitalism: A Longer View - excellent. Read a few journal articles by her, but never read any of her books, more fool me

yeah its a really great book. i've got a lot out of everything of hers i've read so far, i'd especially recommend Citizens to Lords and Liberty & Property (I think there was to be a 3rd in the series but it didn't happen before she passed away). both are very interesting materialist take on the development of political thought and complement the approach taken in Origins well.

 

[iona]

1) Insurgent - Veronica Roth
2) 1Q84, Book One - Haruki Murakami
3) 1Q84, Book Two - Haruki Murakami
4) Fatal Burn - Lisa Jackson
5) 1Q84, Book Three - Haruki Murakami
6) The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
7) Anathem - Neal Stephenson
8) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick (reread)

 

[Beats & Pieces]

57. The Confessions - St. Augustine

 

[ringo]

1/45 And The Ass Saw The Angel - Nick Cave
2/45 Rant - Chuck Palahniuk
3/45 Thank You, Jeeves - PG Wodehouse
4/45 Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee
5/45 Dodgers - Bill Beverly
6/45 Fup - Jim Dodge
7/45 Dirty Havana Trilogy - Pedro Juan Gutierrez
8/45 Silk - Alessandro Baricco
9/45 Breakfast Of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
10/45 The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
11/45 Rodigan: My Life In Reggae - David Rodigan
12/45 Empire Of The Sun - JG Ballard
13/45 Post Office - Charles Bukowski
14/45 Chronicle Of A Death Foretold - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
15/45 The Saga Of Erik The Viking - Terry Jones
16/45 The End Of The Affair - Graham Greene
17/45 The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
18/45 Demon Dentist - David Walliams
19/45 Koko Takes A Holiday - Kieran Shea
20/45 The Son - Phillip Meyer
21/45 Futuristic Violence And Fancy Suits - David Wong
22/45 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
23/45 The Power Of The Dog - Thomas Savage
24/45 Friction - Joe Stretch
25/45 By Grand Central Station I Sat Down And Wept - Elizabeth Smart
26/45 Human Croquet - Kate Atkinson
27/45 Niwaki: Pruning, shaping and training trees the Japanese way - Jake Hobson
28/45 The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood
29/45 Still Midnight - Denise Mina
30/45 The Intimate Diary Of A London Call Girl - Belle De Jour

 

[kropotkin]

1. Tom Rob Smith - child 44
2. Louisa Lim - People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited
3. Robin Yassin-Kassab, Leila Al-Shami - Burning Country: Syrians in revolution and war
4. Daniel Kahneman - Thinking, Fast and Slow
5. John Courtenay Grinwood - Arabesk
6. Harsha walia - undoing border imperialism
7. Howard zinn - a people's history of the united states
8. Simon Mawer - the glass room
9. Taking Sides: Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism - Cindy Milstein (Editor)
10. Platform Capitalism - Nick Srnicek
11. The Meaning of Race - kenan malik
12. The name of the wind- Patrick Rothfuss
13. Folding Beijing - Hao Jingfang
14. Stories of your life and others- Ted Chiang
15. House of God - Samuel Shem
16. The Sellout - Paul Beatty
17. Capitalist Realism - Mark Fisher
18. The Clockwork rocket- greg egan
19. Southern Insurgency: The Coming of the Global Working Class - Immanuel Ness
20. The power- naomi alderman
21. Stalin: court of the red tsar - Simon sebag-montefiori
22. The Wise Man's Fear - Patrick Rothfuss
23. Violent Borders - refugees and the right to move - Reece Jones
24. Cultural Studies: A Theoretical History - Stuart Hall
25. Dodgers by Bill Beverly
26. A gentleman in Moscow - Amor Towles
27. The stranger - Albert Camus
28. Lustrum - Robert Harris
29. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind- Yuval Noah Harari
30. All the Birds in the Sky- Charlie Jane Anders
31. Our kind of traitor - John le carre
32. Cyber-marx: cycles and circuits of struggle in high-technology capitalism - Nick dyer-witherford
33. I contain multitudes- Ed Yong
34. The Plot Against America- Phillip Roth
35. We Want Everything - Nanni Balestrini
36. October- China Mieville
37. A tale of two cities - Charles Dickens
38. The wizard of earthsea - ursula leguin
39. White Teeth - Zadie Smith
40. Stoner- John Williams
41. Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie
42. Kill all normies - angela nagle
43. Shadow of the Silk Road - Colin Thurbon
44. The Vorrh - Brian Catling
45. The left hand of darkness - Ursula LeGuin
46. Before the Fall - Noah Hawley
47. Tortilla Flat- John Steinbeck
48. Kolyma Tales- Varlam Shalamov
49. Slow river- Nicola Griffith
50. ‎Of Mice and Men- John Steinbeck
51. ‎Neptune's Brood - Charles Stross
52. ‎Fear the Sky- Stephen Moss
53. ‎The Humans - Matt Haig
54. ‎"Militant Anti-Fascism: A Hundred Years of Resistance" - M. Testa
55. ‎Fear the Survivors- Stephen Moss

Doing well this year. Need to read a few more heavy duty non-fiction books after a slew of sci-fi pap

 

[PursuedByBears]

1/25 Ken Follett - World Without End
2/25 Frances Hardinge - Fly By Night
3/25 Larry McMurtry - Lonesome Dove
4/25 Roald Dahl - Madness (short stories)
5/25 Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep
6/25 David Rodigan - My Life in Reggae
7/25 Alan Garner - The Owl Service
8/25 William Goldman - The Princess Bride
9/25 George Orwell - Burmese Days
10/25 John Steinbeck - Cannery Row
11/25 Bill Beverly - Dodgers
12/25 Brian Jacques - Redwall
13/25 Philip Pullman - Northern Lights (reread)
14/25 Stephen P Kershaw - A Brief History of the Roman Empire: Rise and Fall
15/25 China Miéville - Perdido Street Station
16/25 Neil Gaiman - Norse Mythology
17/26 Philip Pullman - The Subtle Knife (reread)
18/26 Philip Pullman - The Amber Spyglass (reread)
19/26 James S A Corey - Leviathan Wakes
20/26 Felicia Day - You're Never Weird On The Internet (almost)
21/26 James S A Corey - Caliban's War
22/26 James S A Corey - Abbadon's Gate
23/26 Stieg Larsson - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

24/26 Andrew Michael Hurley - The Loney - I liked that, gothic creepiness on the north Lancashire coast.

 

[8115]

1/20 My Cousin Rachel, Daphne du Maurier
2/20 Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race, Reni Eddo-Lodge
3/20 Miss Peregrine's Home for Perculiar Children, Ransom Riggs
4/20 Capitalism: A Ghost Story, Arundhati Roy
5/20 The Private Patient, PD James
6/20 The Outrun, Amy Liptrot
7/20 The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy
8/20 The Underground Railway, Colson Whitehead
9/20 The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
10/20 White Teeth, Zadie Smith
11/20 Abandoned Buildings in North Texas, Jen Waldo
12/20 Christodora, Tim Murphy

 

[Voley]

1/30 Substance: Inside New Order - Peter Hook
2/30 The Illustrated A Brief History Of Time - Stephen Hawking
3/30 A Clash Of Kings - George R.R. Martin
4/30 Reelin' In The Years: The Soundtrack Of A Northern Life - Mark Radcliffe
5/30 Look Back In Hunger: The Autobiography - Jo Brand
6/30 Dodgers - Bill Beverly
7/30 Altamont: The Rolling Stones, The Hells Angels And The Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day - Joel Selvin
8/30 Live At The Brixton Academy: A Riotous Life In The Music Business - Simon Parkes
9/30 Travels With Charley: In Search Of America - John Steinbeck
10/30 A Storm Of Swords Book 1: Steel And Snow - George R.R. Martin
11/30 Girl In A Band - Kim Gordon
12/30 The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
13/30 Hound Dog - Richard Blandford
14/30 American Gods - Neil Gaiman
15/30 Daft Wee Stories - Limmy
16/30 Don't You Leave Me Here - Wilko Johnson
17/30 What Planet Am I On? - Shaun Ryder
18/30 My Old Man: Tales Of Our Fathers - ed. Ted Kessler
19/30 The Outsider - Albert Camus
20/30 Kill Your Friends - John Niven
21/30 The Devil All The Time - Donald Ray Pollock
22/30 Thinking About It Only Makes It Worse - David Mitchell
23/30 Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
24/30 Knots And Crosses - Ian Rankin

Very good, this. First book of his I've ever read and I liked the Rebus character. Psychologically unhinged heavy-drinking detectives are two-a-penny in crime fiction but this one seemed more believable than most. Really good plot twist/denouement that I couldn't have predicted. Great descriptions of Edinburgh. I shall read more of his stuff.

 

[imposs1904]

1/26 The Invoice: A Novel by Jonas Karlsson

2/26 Porridge by Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais and Ian Marshall (Reread)

Erm, not sure I'm going to reach my target this year.

 

[marty21]

1/75 Sanctuary : After it Happened Book 5 - Devon C Ford
2/75 1916 : The Morning After - Tim Pat Coogan
3/75 Last Stand at Saber River - Elmore Leonard
4/75 After : The Shock - Scott Nicholson
5/75 After : The Echo - Scott Nicholson
6/75 After : Milepost 291 - Scott Nicholson
7/75 After : Whiteout - Scott Nicholson
8/75 After : Red Scare - Scott Nicholson
9/75 Surviving The Evacuation : Ireland - Book 9 -Frank Tayell
10/75 Crisis - Frank Gardner
11/75 Outcast London : A Study in the Relationship Between Classes in Victorian Society - Gareth Stedman Jones
12/75 After : Dying Light - Scott Nicholson
13/75 The Ruins - T W Piperbrook
14/75 Confederates - Thomas Keneally
15/75 Black Water Lilies - Michel Bussi
16/75 The Revenge of History - Seumas Milne
17/75 The Great War : The American Front - Harry Turtledove.
18/75 The Wrong Side of Goodbye - Michael Connelly
19/75 Surviving The Evacuation : The Last Candidate - Book 10 . Frank Tayell
20/75 The Gunslinger : The Dark Tower - Stephen King.
21/75 Out of Bounds - Val McDermid
22/75 Hurst - Robin Crumby
23/75 The Great War : Walk In Hell - Harry Turtledove
24/75 Cold Earth - Ann Cleeves
25/75 Critical Dawn - Darren Wearmouth & Colin Barnes
26/75 Critical Path - Wearmouth & Barnes
27/75 Critical Strike - Wearmouth & Barnes
28/75 The Birdwatcher - William Shaw
29/75 Dodgers - Bill Beverly
30/75 Dark Town - Thomas Mullen
31/75 A Hero In France - Alan Furst
32/75 Reelin' in The Years : The Soundtrack of a Northern Life. - Mark Radcliffe
33/75 The Scarecrow - Michael Connelly
34/75 Roads :A Millennial Journey Along America''s Great Interstate Highways - Larry McMurtry
35/75 Rebellion: After It Happened Book 6 - Devon C Ford
36/75 Sentinel - Robin Crumby
37/75 The Fire Sermon - Raphael Dogg
38/75 Earth Alone - Daniel Arenson
39/75 Earth Lost - Daniel Arenson
40/75 Earth Rising - Daniel Arenson
41/75 I am Pilgrim - Terry Hayes
42/75 To Kill The President - Sam Bourne
43/75 The Contours of American History - William Appleman Williams
44/75 The Killing of Osama Bin Laden - Seymour Hersh.
45/75 Nomad - James Swallow
46/75 Surviving The Evacuation: Search and Rescue . Book 11 - Frank Tayell
47/75 The Strength of the Wolf : The Secret History of America's War on Drugs - Douglas Valentine.
48/75 I Am Missing - Tim Weaver.
49/75 Exile - James Swallow
50/75 The Ministry of Nostalgia - Owen Hatherley
51/75 The Age of Jihad - Patrick Cockburn
52/75 Holy Island - LJ Ross
53/75 Sycamore Gap - LJ Ross
54/75 Heavenfield - LJ Ross
55/75 Angel - LJ Ross
56/75 High Force - LJ Ross
57/75 Cragside - LJ Ross
58/75 Extreme Measures - Vince Flynn
59/75 Transfer of Power - Vince Flynn
******

60/75 The Third Option - Vince Flynn

 

[Beats & Pieces]

58. The Didache - Anon.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

1/25 Malcolm X and Alex Haley - The Autobiography of Malcolm X
2/25 Alex de Jonge - Nightmare Culture: Lautremont & "Les Chants de Maldoror"
3/25 Viv Albertine - Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys
4/25 Endnotes 1: Preliminary Materials For A Balance Sheet Of The Twentieth Century
5/25 Susana Medina - The Bowie Neuro-Transmitter
6/25 Michael Muhammad Knight - The Five Percenters: Islam, Hip Hop and the Gods of New York
7/25 Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
8/25 Endnotes 2: Misery And The Value Form
9/25 Kim Gordon: Girl In A Band
10/25 Tom Vague - King Mob Echo: From The Gordon Riots to Situationists and Sex Pistols
11/25 Paul Harrison - Inside The Inner City: Life Under The Cutting Edge
12/25 Cosey Fanni Tutti - Art Sex Music
13/25 Karl Marx - Capital volume 3
14/25 Chris Kraus - I Love Dick
15/25 Jeffrey Boakye - Hold Tight: Black Masculinity, Millennials & the Meaning of Grime
16/25 Rosa Schling - The Lime Green Mystery: An Oral History of the Centerprise Co-Operative
17/25 David Keenan - This Is Memorial Device
18/25 Endnotes 3: Gender, Race, Class And Other Misfortunes
19/25 Emmanuelle Waeckerle & Stefan Szczelkun - Rise With Your Class Not From It: The Working Press Archive Is A Thorn
20/25 Charles Mingus - Beneath The Underdog
21/25 Thaler & Sunstein - Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness
22/25 Dave Tomlin - Tales from the Embassy: Communiques from the Guild of Transcultural Studies 1976-1991
23/25 David Robins and Phil Cohen - Knuckle Sandwich: Growing Up in the Working-Class City
24/25 Angela Carter - The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise In Cultural History
25/25 RosaLee Goldberg - Laurie Anderson
26/25 Simon Morris - Creepshots
27/25 Gabi Losoncy - Second Person

28/25 Philip Best - Captagon

Bleak and woozy experimental fiction with a debt to Burroughs. War, disabled kids, badly run hospitals, creepy relationships.

 

[iona]

1) Insurgent - Veronica Roth
2) 1Q84, Book One - Haruki Murakami
3) 1Q84, Book Two - Haruki Murakami
4) Fatal Burn - Lisa Jackson
5) 1Q84, Book Three - Haruki Murakami
6) The Little Friend - Donna Tartt
7) Anathem - Neal Stephenson
8) Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick (reread)
9) Obelisk - Stephen Baxter
10) Take Back The Sky - Greg Bear
11) A Room Full of Bones - Elly Griffiths